Since life is so precious I want to tell everyone that is important in my life that I love them and I am thankful for them

Why do people look at me like I have three heads when I do this? I have a hard enough time giving compliments, but when they finally come out of my mouth, most people just stare or shrug it off.

This should be THE most simple goal on my list, so WHY is it so complicated?

I’ve been doing better via expressing my appreciation to family members. I’m not out right able to say “I love you” to their faces most of the time, but I do sometimes say it on the phone when hanging up, or sometimes in emails. I am trying to do more things like staying in touch better, revealing more personal intricacies about myself and my faults.

This seems to cause my friends and family to be more open to me as well, or at least this is my perception so far.

I hope that in time, this gets easier.

Pamela

Can’t you all feel my “meaning-well-ness”? Truly. I mean to send thank you cards. I mean to call. I mean to visit. I mean well.

Hugs,
Pamela

Regarding my prior post—- I still have yet to send the card to my mother-in-law. Sheesh, what is so hard about this?

The person I’d like to thank today and tell her I love her is my mother-in-law. She makes special efforts all of the time to help us out by watching the kids, doing special things for us and the kids, buying them clothes, wintercoats and toys, taking them to get their haircuts or flu shots when I was too ill to be able to do it or didn’t have time because of work.

I am a hard person to get to know. I’ve been hard for her to understand, as a daughter-in-law. She and I are as different as night and day, but we share the same love for my kids, and for this I am so grateful. I love her so much and feel so much respect for her. I wish I could tell her, without making her uncomfortable.

She is one of those types of mother-in-laws who would be extremely uncomfortable, I think, with a verbalisation of this variety. I think I will start by sending a card.

What do you guys think?

In thanks,
Pamela